Doctoral Outcomes
Each year, 大象传媒 bestows PhD degrees on candidates who go on to enter a variety of career fields in the academic departments, public history avenues, among many other fields. From 2000 through present, 99 students received 大象传媒 doctoral degrees in History. Of the 99 recipients, 28 currently hold tenure-track appointments, 33 others hold full-time teaching or administrative appointments in educational institutions, and 36 others hold full-time positions in public history or cultural institutions or in a variety of employment settings.
| 2024 | |
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Dissertation: "Daring Dames and Dirty Deeds": Burlesque and Censorship Politics in Chicago, 1850-1970 Director: Timothy Gilfoyle |
| 2023 | |
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Visiting Assistant Professor of History, St. Vincent College, Latrobe, PA
Dissertation: Enshrining Memory: The Production of an American Catholic Past
Director: Patricia Mooney-Melvin
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Assistant Professor of Public History, Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, TN
Dissertation: "Looking Forward, Looking Back: Depression-Era World’s Fairs, Imagined Pasts, and Hopeful Futures"
Advisor: Benjamin Johnson |
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Katie Macica
Postdoctoral Fellow in Public History, Department of History, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
Dissertation: Environments of War: The Pacific Northwest and the Waging of World War II
Advisor: Patricia Mooney-Melvin
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| 2022 | |
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Adjunct Instructor, History Department and Arrupe College, 大象传媒, Chicago, IL Dissertation: "Detrimental Influences”: The Home Owners Loan Corporation and Racial Residential Segregation in Chicago
Advisor: Timothy Gilfoyle |
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Postdoctoral DPAA (Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency) Research Partner Fellow, History Department, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA
Dissertation: Reclaiming the Patria: Sinarquismo in the United States, 1937-1946
Advisor: Benjamin Johnson
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Sean Jacobson
Assistant Professor of Public History and American Indian History, University of North Alabama, Florence, AL Dissertation: A Past Not Present: Memory, Christianity, and Indian Removal Mission Sites in the Great Lakes and the South
Advisor: Theodore Karamanski |
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Ella Wagner Historian/Archivist, Federal Transit Administration, Washington, DC Dissertation: “The Saloon is their Palace”: Race and Politics in the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, 1874-1920 |
| 2021 | |
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Jenny Clay
Visiting Assistant Professor of History, North Park University, Chicago, IL
Dissertation:“Peace Bodies: Women, Encampments, and the Struggle against Nuclear Weapons during the Cold War”
Advisor: Michelle Nickerson |
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Kelly Schmidt
Reparative Public Historian and Lecturer, Special Collections Management Research Associate, The WASHU and Slavery Project, Wahington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO Dissertation: "We heard sometimes their earnest desire to be free in a free country": Enslaved People, Jesuit Masters, and Negotiations for Freedom on American Borderlands, 1823-1930
Advisors: Kyle Roberts and Theodore Karamanski
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Sebastian Wuepper
Associate Archivist, Dominican Sisters, Grand Rapids, MI Dissertation: Reams, Revolutionaries and Radicals - The German American Milieu in Chicago, 1847-1890
Advisor: Timothy Gilfoyle
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| 2020 | |
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Chelsea Denault Dissertation: “An Environmental Sleight of Hand:" Trash, Activism, and Urban Finance in Detroit, 1970-1990 |
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Dissertation: Useful for Life: Women, Girls, and Vocational School Reform in Chicago, 1880-1930 |
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Hope Shannon
Marketing and Engagement Manager, American Historical Association, Washington, DCDissertation: Mobilizing the Past: Local History and Community Action in Modern Metropolitan Chicago
Advisor: Patricia Mooney-Melvin
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| 2019 | |
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Curator, Winnetka Historical Society, Winnetka, IL;
Contract Researcher at U.S. Life-Saving Service Heritage Association
Dissertation: Exhibiting Sovereignty: Tribal Museums in the Great Lakes Region, 1969-2010
Advisor: Theodore Karamanski |
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Nicole Perez
Accreditation Services Associate, Higher Learning Commission, Chicago, IL Dissertation: 'The Audacity to Dream': Black Suburbanization in Metropolitan Detroit, 1920-90
Advisor: Michelle Nickerson |
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Freelance Public Historian and Web Designer
Dissertation: All and More That Was Owed: American Indians and Settler Capitalism on the Upper Mississippi, 1805-1890
Advisor: Theodore Karamanski |
| 2018 | |
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Dissertation: “Gratuitous Distribution”: Distributing African American Antislavery Texts, 1773-1845 |
| 2017 | |
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Dissertation: "She Shot Him Dead: The Criminalization of Women and the Struggle over Social Order in Chicago, 1871-1919" |
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Amy Oberlin Dissertation: "Love and Loyal Actions: Ritual Affect and Royal Authority, 1688-1760" |
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Dissertation: "Transport for Early Modern London: London's Transportation Environment and the Experience of Movement, 1500–1800" |
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O. Eliot Pope Dissertation: "Forgotten Soldiers from a Forgotten War: Oral History Testimonies of African American Korean War Veterans" |
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Dissertation: "Forgetting How to Hate: The Evolution of White Responses to Racial Integration in Chicago, 1946-1987" |
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Marisol Rivera Dissertation: "Survival Under Oppression: The Puerto Rican and Allied Struggle for Representation in Chicago, 1950-1983" |
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Dissertation: "Pancho Gonzales' Racket: Citizenship and Celebrity in the Creation of Modern Tennis" |
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Dissertation: "Let's Get Together and Chew the FAT: Women, Size, and Community in Modern America" |
View more PhD Outcomes here
Each year, 大象传媒 bestows PhD degrees on candidates who go on to enter a variety of career fields in the academic departments, public history avenues, among many other fields. From 2000 through present, 99 students received 大象传媒 doctoral degrees in History. Of the 99 recipients, 28 currently hold tenure-track appointments, 33 others hold full-time teaching or administrative appointments in educational institutions, and 36 others hold full-time positions in public history or cultural institutions or in a variety of employment settings.
| 2024 | |
|---|---|
|
Dissertation: "Daring Dames and Dirty Deeds": Burlesque and Censorship Politics in Chicago, 1850-1970 Director: Timothy Gilfoyle |
| 2023 | |
|
Visiting Assistant Professor of History, St. Vincent College, Latrobe, PA
Dissertation: Enshrining Memory: The Production of an American Catholic Past
Director: Patricia Mooney-Melvin
|
|
Assistant Professor of Public History, Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, TN
Dissertation: "Looking Forward, Looking Back: Depression-Era World’s Fairs, Imagined Pasts, and Hopeful Futures"
Advisor: Benjamin Johnson |
|
Katie Macica
Postdoctoral Fellow in Public History, Department of History, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
Dissertation: Environments of War: The Pacific Northwest and the Waging of World War II
Advisor: Patricia Mooney-Melvin
|
| 2022 | |
|
Adjunct Instructor, History Department and Arrupe College, 大象传媒, Chicago, IL Dissertation: "Detrimental Influences”: The Home Owners Loan Corporation and Racial Residential Segregation in Chicago
Advisor: Timothy Gilfoyle |
|
Postdoctoral DPAA (Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency) Research Partner Fellow, History Department, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA
Dissertation: Reclaiming the Patria: Sinarquismo in the United States, 1937-1946
Advisor: Benjamin Johnson
|
| |
Sean Jacobson
Assistant Professor of Public History and American Indian History, University of North Alabama, Florence, AL Dissertation: A Past Not Present: Memory, Christianity, and Indian Removal Mission Sites in the Great Lakes and the South
Advisor: Theodore Karamanski |
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Ella Wagner Historian/Archivist, Federal Transit Administration, Washington, DC Dissertation: “The Saloon is their Palace”: Race and Politics in the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, 1874-1920 |
| 2021 | |
| |
Jenny Clay
Visiting Assistant Professor of History, North Park University, Chicago, IL
Dissertation:“Peace Bodies: Women, Encampments, and the Struggle against Nuclear Weapons during the Cold War”
Advisor: Michelle Nickerson |
|
Kelly Schmidt
Reparative Public Historian and Lecturer, Special Collections Management Research Associate, The WASHU and Slavery Project, Wahington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO Dissertation: "We heard sometimes their earnest desire to be free in a free country": Enslaved People, Jesuit Masters, and Negotiations for Freedom on American Borderlands, 1823-1930
Advisors: Kyle Roberts and Theodore Karamanski
|
|
Sebastian Wuepper
Associate Archivist, Dominican Sisters, Grand Rapids, MI Dissertation: Reams, Revolutionaries and Radicals - The German American Milieu in Chicago, 1847-1890
Advisor: Timothy Gilfoyle
|
| 2020 | |
|---|---|
|
Chelsea Denault Dissertation: “An Environmental Sleight of Hand:" Trash, Activism, and Urban Finance in Detroit, 1970-1990 |
|
Dissertation: Useful for Life: Women, Girls, and Vocational School Reform in Chicago, 1880-1930 |
| |
Hope Shannon
Marketing and Engagement Manager, American Historical Association, Washington, DCDissertation: Mobilizing the Past: Local History and Community Action in Modern Metropolitan Chicago
Advisor: Patricia Mooney-Melvin
|
| 2019 | |
|---|---|
|
Curator, Winnetka Historical Society, Winnetka, IL;
Contract Researcher at U.S. Life-Saving Service Heritage Association
Dissertation: Exhibiting Sovereignty: Tribal Museums in the Great Lakes Region, 1969-2010
Advisor: Theodore Karamanski |
| |
Nicole Perez
Accreditation Services Associate, Higher Learning Commission, Chicago, IL Dissertation: 'The Audacity to Dream': Black Suburbanization in Metropolitan Detroit, 1920-90
Advisor: Michelle Nickerson |
|
Freelance Public Historian and Web Designer
Dissertation: All and More That Was Owed: American Indians and Settler Capitalism on the Upper Mississippi, 1805-1890
Advisor: Theodore Karamanski |
| 2018 | |
|---|---|
|
Dissertation: “Gratuitous Distribution”: Distributing African American Antislavery Texts, 1773-1845 |
| 2017 | |
|---|---|
|
Dissertation: "She Shot Him Dead: The Criminalization of Women and the Struggle over Social Order in Chicago, 1871-1919" |
|
Amy Oberlin Dissertation: "Love and Loyal Actions: Ritual Affect and Royal Authority, 1688-1760" |
|
|
Dissertation: "Transport for Early Modern London: London's Transportation Environment and the Experience of Movement, 1500–1800" |
| |
O. Eliot Pope Dissertation: "Forgotten Soldiers from a Forgotten War: Oral History Testimonies of African American Korean War Veterans" |
|
Dissertation: "Forgetting How to Hate: The Evolution of White Responses to Racial Integration in Chicago, 1946-1987" |
| |
Marisol Rivera Dissertation: "Survival Under Oppression: The Puerto Rican and Allied Struggle for Representation in Chicago, 1950-1983" |
| |
Dissertation: "Pancho Gonzales' Racket: Citizenship and Celebrity in the Creation of Modern Tennis" |
| |
Dissertation: "Let's Get Together and Chew the FAT: Women, Size, and Community in Modern America" |